April 2007 Report ActiveMQ 4.1.1 Released voted in a new committer, John Heitmann the developer and user lists continue to be very active

ActiveMQ 4.0RC1 Release Guide Release Manager Hiram Chirino Special issues We are still in the Incubator so need to ensure that all the proper disclaimers are in place and that the artifacts are all properly named incubatoractivemq. Open Issues Holding up the Release ...

An Activation Spec is used to configure the message delivery to an MDB. The ejbjar.xml deployment descriptor needs to include a <activationconfig> element inside the <messagedriven> element like: <activationconfig> <activationconfigproperty> <activationconfigpropertyname>destination</activationconfigpropertyname> <activationconfigpropertyvalue>queue.testQueue</activationconfigpropertyvalue> </activationconfigproperty> <activationconfigproperty ...

Active Groups is a dynamic collaboration framework so simplify message passing and shared state between members of the group. It is available in ActiveMQ 6.0 Active Groups includes the following: Dynamic membership information broadcast messaging pointtopoint in boxes Distributed state ...

New and Noteworthy This release represents a major increase in functionality; the new features in this release are: distributed queues and topics and clusters of message brokers autoreconnection of clients across a cluster of brokers support for high performance nondurable queues wildcard support on queues (as well ...

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New and Noteworthy This is a major release including lots of new functionality and performance improvements: This release includes advisory messages so you can listen to the state of the message fabric optimised wire format for higher throughput improved persistence engine and closer ...

New and Noteworthy This release includes full support for the high performance journal. Our default persistence mechanism is now the journal for short term persistence and then JDBC (via Apache Derby by default) for long term storage. The journal is regularly checkpointed with the database ...

Old Link Please see Networks of Brokers

Some of the transports support configuration, such as timeout values, maximum retry count and so forth. To configure the transports you can use the URI query syntax. e.g. tcp://foo:1234?asyncSend=true&socketBufferSize=10000 If you are using a list of URLs ...

New and Noteworthy This new release includes the following a new 'discovery' transport protocol URI Protocols for a pure clientonly peer network a self discovering cluster which automatically finds the brokers available on the network (as opposed to the 'peer' protocol which is a complete ...

New and Noteworthy This new release includes the following New Stomp http://stomp.codehaus.org/ support to make it easy to create cross language clients such as for Ruby or Perl etc. (Python, C and .Net coming soon) XPath based selectors and demand based ...

New and Noteworthy This new release includes the following Improved Stomp http://stomp.codehaus.org/ 1.0 support to make it easy to create cross language clients such as for C, C#, Python, Ruby, Perl and Pike. Ajax support now uses OpenRico as the default ...

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New and Noteworthy This is the first milestone release of 4.x since the move to Apache so the package names have changed from org.activemq to org.apache.activemq. For a full list see the Changes in 4.0. This release of ActiveMQ includes a large number of new features Changes ...

New and Noteworthy This is the second release candiate release of 4.0. This release of ActiveMQ includes a large number of new features Changes in 4.0 such as MasterSlave and Message Groups together with numerous bug fixes. Warnings When upgrading from a previous release you ...

New and Noteworthy This is the 4.0 release of Apache ActiveMQ. This release of Apache ActiveMQ includes a large number of new features Changes in 4.0 such as MasterSlave and Message Groups together with numerous bug fixes. Warnings When upgrading from a previous release you ...

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ActiveMQ CPP Development Page This page documents current and planned development of ActiveMQ CPP.&nbsp; The table below lists development tasks and their current status Development Activeity \\ Status \\ Openwire Support \\ inprogress \\ &nbsp;Openwire Support This task adds ...

ActiveMQ C Integration CMS http://activemq.apache.org/cms/ is an easytouse JMS 1.1like API. Our implementation of CMS is called ActiveMQCPP, the architecture for which supports pluggable transport protocols, very much like the ActiveMQ broker itself

Command Line Tools activemq #activemq \ runs an activemq broker activemqadmin #activemqadmin \ manages a broker instance In versions prior to 5.0 the functionality of activemqadmin script was scattered over multiple scripts, such as: shutdown #stop \ shutdowns an activemq broker ...

ActiveMQ Messages support the following default message properties: Message attributes accessed as properties: Property Name type default value description JMSDestination javax.jms.Destination set by the producer Destination used by the producer JMSReplyTo javax.jms.Destination null user defined JMSType ...

Running Maven 2 Performance Test This Maven 2 http://maven.apache.org plugin allows you to run performance tests easily using the Maven command line or run tests automatically in Continuum http://maven.apache.org/continuum/ Prerequisites Starting with ActiveMQ ...

ActiveMQ Real Time is a subproject of the popular Apache ActiveMQ messaging system but is designed specifically to meet the needs for low latency high throughput collaborative realtime applications. It is designed to be used by multiple languages on multiple platforms and has three main goals ...

We support a custom Xml Configuration mechanism for configuring a Message Broker instance. To provide tools and IDEs with an easy way of editing the XML as well as providing some handy documentation, we provide our own activemq.dtd http://svn.activemq.org ...

idea is to provide a really simple & lightweight SOAP stack which can be extended & connected to any transport and binding technology. Pluggable transports With ActiveMQ we've got most common transports covered (TCP, SSL, UDP, multicast, JGroups, JRMS ...

Note that the ActiveSpace documentation has now has moved to its own wiki http://docs.codehaus.org/display/AS/Home

ActiveMQ supports advisory messages which allows you to watch the system using regular JMS messages. Currently we have advisory messages that support consumers, producers and connections starting and stopping temporary destinations being created and destroyed messages ...

users of Apache ActiveMQ 4.0 or later please see Advisory Message. In previous 3.x versions the following is supported: The destination string constants are available in ActiveMQDestination http://activemq.codehaus.org/maven/apidocs/org/activemq/message/ActiveMQDestination.html ActiveMQDestination.CONSUMERADVISORYPREFIX ActiveMQDestination.PRODUCERADVISORYPREFIX ActiveMQDestination.CONNECTIONADVISORYPREFIX ...

Introduction ActiveMQ supports Ajax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax%28programming%29 which is an Asychronous Javascript And Xml mechanism for real time web applications. This means you can create highly real time web applications taking ...

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Basics This is the default storage for AcitveMQ 5 and above. The AMQ Message Store is an embeddable transactional message storage solution that is extremely fast and reliable. message commands are written to a transactional journal which consists of rolling data logs which means ...

AMQP The AMQP protocol http://www.amqp.org/ is an attempt to define a standard wire level protocol for messaging. The AMQP Working Group has released two versions of the standard so far, 0.8 and 0.9, and both are freely available. The AMQP Working ...

Status report for the Apache ActiveMQ Project Community: The ActiveMQ community continues to stay vibrant with a very healthy amount of email traffic flowing through it's email lists. It has also added several new committers to it's ranks. New Committers: Jim ...

Status report for the Apache ActiveMQ Project Community: The ActiveMQ project has had another very busy but quiet quarter. The development and user lists continue to stay vibrant. The Camel sub project has completed moving to a TLP. Development: ActiveMQ ...

Community: The development and user lists continue to stay active. Alex Dean (alexd) added as a committer to the project Development: Development has started on the next ActiveMQ 5.6 release. Development continues on the ActiveMQ Apollo 1.0 release. Development has started ...

Status report for the Apache ActiveMQ Project July board report was missed in part due to a change in PMC chair. Community: The developer and user communities remain very active. New committer added: Albert Strasheim Development: The CMS API has ...

Status report for the Apache ActiveMQ Project Community: Nicky Sandhu and Hadrian Zbarcea were voted in and accepted becoming ActiveMQ committers A code grant was accepted for an NMS implementation that access Tibco EMS. The development and user lists continue to stay ...

Status report for the Apache ActiveMQ Project Community: The ActiveMQ project has had another very busy quarter. William Tam has been added as an ActiveMQ committer. The development and user lists continue to stay vibrant. The Camel sub ...

Community: The ActiveMQ project has had another very busy but quiet quarter. The development and user lists continue to stay vibrant. Tim Bish has joined the ActiveMQ PMC Development: The Apache.NMS.Stomp project has begun development of its first ...

Community: The development and user lists continue to stay active. No new committers or PMC members added. Development: Development has started on the next ActiveMQ 5.5 release. Prototype broker core slated for ActiveMQ 6.x is still under development. Apache.NMS.Stomp ...

TLP Description: Apache ActiveMQ is a popular and powerful open source messaging server. Apache ActiveMQ is fast, supports many Cross Language Clients and Protocols, comes with easy to use Enterprise Integration Patterns and many advanced features while fully ...

Status report for the Apache ActiveMQ Project Community: The ActiveMQ project has had another very busy quarter. Seven new contributors were voted in and accepted becoming ActiveMQ committers: Gary Tully Gert Vanthienen Dejan Bosanac Claus ...

Community: The ActiveMQ project has had another very busy but quiet quarter. The development and user lists continue to stay vibrant. New PMC members: Dejan Bosanac New Committers: Colin MacNaughton, Bruce Snyder Development: The first release ...

Community: The development and user lists continue to stay active and vibrant. No new committers or PMC members added Development: Working towards an ActiveMQ 5.4 release. Prototype broker core for ActiveMQ 6.x is showing promise Releases: ActiveMQCPP 3.2.1 ...

Community: The development and user lists continue to stay active. No new committers or PMC members added. Development: Development has started on the next ActiveMQ 5.6 release. Apollo 1.0 is approaching completion. Several betas have been released and it has ...

Status report for the Apache ActiveMQ Project Apologies for missing the April board report deadline. Community: The ActiveMQ project has had another very busy but quiet quarter. The development and user lists continue to stay vibrant. Development: Working towards ...

Status report for the Apache ActiveMQ Project Community: The developer and user communities remain very active. The Camel project, NMS project, and recent release candidate for ActiveMQ 5.0 have generated much mailing list activity. A code grant has ...

Status report for the Apache ActiveMQ Project Community: The ActiveMQ project has had another very busy quarter. Jonathan Anstey was voted in as an ActiveMQ committer. The development and user lists continue to stay vibrant. Development: Lots of development effort ...

Community: The ActiveMQ project has had another very busy but quiet quarter. The development and user lists continue to stay vibrant. Development: It was a busy an fruitful quarter which produced several new releases. Releases: Apache.NMS 1.1.0 Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ ...

Community: The development and user lists continue to stay active and vibrant. No new committers or PMC members added Development: Development has started on the next ActiveMQ 5.5 release. Prototype broker core slated for ActiveMQ 6.x is still under development ...

Community: The development and user lists continue to stay active. No new committers or PMC members added. Development: A LGPL licensed artifact was discovered to be in a Apache Camel dependency which was included in the ActiveMQ 5.4.0, 5.4.1, 5.4.2 and 5.5.0 releases. We have ...

current ActiveMQ reporting schedule is: January, April, July, October

seems to be no consensus on whether JMS providers should use case insensitive destination names. Since most names in Java & J2EE are case sensitive (class names, JNDi names, file names (on many unix operating systems), URIs and URLs ...

Kind of. A message can be loaded directly from the journal if it was swapped out of memory. The journal cannot be used, however, to recover a durable subscription as it does not keep an ordered index of messages per durable sub. So when a durable sub ...

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Background ActiveMQ supports sending messages to a broker in sync or async mode. The mode used has a huge impact in the latency of the send call. Since latency is typically a huge factor in the throughput that can achieved by producer, using async sends can ...

many secured environments there's a requirement to log every user management action. For that ActiveMQ implements audit logging, which means that every management action made through JMX or Web Console management interface will be logged and available for later inspection. Audit ...

ActiveMQ supports both Apache Axis http://ws.apache.org/axis/ and Apache CXF http://incubator.apache.org/cxf out of the box. Just add the required jars Initial Configuration to your classpath and you should be able to use JMS transport support ...

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page details how to become a committer. How to become a committer First of all you need to get involved and Contribute Contributing via the mail list, forums, edit the documention, work on the issue tracker and submit patches. Once you're contributing ...

couple of simple benchmarking tools in the org.activemq.benchmark package in the unit test area. Right now they are quite simple\! If you want a more comprehensive performance testing mechanism try the JMeter Performance Tests Running the benchmark All of the following commands need ...

BlazeDS You may also want to check out the Simplified BlazeDS and JMS article http://mmartinsoftware.blogspot.com/2008/05/simplifiedblazedsandjms.html by Michael Martin http://mmartinsoftware.blogspot.com/. Using the dynamicQueues feature of the JNDI Support Ryan Gardner created thisworking BlazeDS messagingconfig.xml ...

Blob Messages A common requirement these days is to send around massive files for processing by consumers. Folks want to take advantage of the message broker's features such as reliable, transactional load balancing of queues with smart routing but still manage to deal with huge logical ...

Board Reports The following are the Apache Software Foundation Board Reports

Books This page lists the known books about Apache ActiveMQ. If you happen to know a book which is not listed then please contact us, for example using the Mailing Lists. ActiveMQ in Action http://bit.ly/2je6cQ Apache ActiveMQ Reference Guide ...

ActiveBlaze provides infrastructure for fast, reliable peer to peer messaging to meet the demands of high performance and collaborative applications. Using the basic building block of a Channel, there exists a functional hierarchy used for different problem domains, each one a superset of the previous ...

Overview An ActiveMQ broker can be extensivly configured using a single configuration URI. The following URI schemes are supported Scheme Link Description xbean: Broker XBean URI Configures the broker using an Xml Configuration from an ...

Broker Properties URI From version 4.2 of ActiveMQ onwards the Broker Properties URI allows you to run a configured broker Run Broker by referencing a properties file which could be on the classpath, a local file or a remote URL. Syntax properties ...

Broker URI The Broker URI allows you to run a configured broker Run Broker using a single URI for all the configuration. Syntax The URI is assumed to be a composite uri with multiple uris that are used to bind the connectors of the broker. broker:(transportURI,network ...

Broker XBean URI The Broker XBean URI allows you to run a configured broker Run Broker by referencing an Xml Configuration on the classpath. The URI points to an XML document which can be parsed via XBean or Spring. This URI ...

Building ActiveMQ from Source ActiveMQ uses Maven http://maven.apache.org/ as its build and management tool. If you don't fancy using Maven you can use your IDE directly or Download a distribution or JAR. Prequisites Required: Download ...

Dependencies libuuid The build requires the libuuid library that is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available from http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ which is not always installed by default. cppunit The package contains a complete set of cppunit tests. In order for you to build an run the tests ...

very common for an organisation to have lots of legacy C code which needs integration into the message bus. The current available solutions are CMS is an easytouse JMS 1.1like API for C. Our implementation of CMS is called ActiveMQCPP, the architecture ...

One way and RPC with C services Its common for the C services to be the back end services. The 2 common use cases are we send a message oneway to a C service we send a message to a Cservice and wait for the result, then reply back ...

Available since 5.6 Cached LDAP authorization module is an implementation of an default authorization module that initializes and updates data from LDAP. It supports all standard features like defining wildcard policy entries and entry for temporary destinations ...

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Can I modify messages on a queue? The short answer is no. In JMS messages are immutable once they have been sent. If you find you need to modify messages its recommended that you create a consumer with some selector which matches the messages ...

Absolutely! Strictly speaking each producer being used concurrently should be using a separate session (though in ActiveMQ it'll probably work fine if you just use one session for all publishers). For concurrent consumption create a session per ...

Can I send really large files over ActiveMQ The answer is yes. If you are using ActiveMQ 4.2 or later we highly recommend you use Blob Messages which implements an out of band transport of the messages; it allows ...

Can I use ActiveMQ 5.0 or later on Java 1.4? Apache ActiveMQ 5.x or later is developed to run on Java 5 or later to take advantage of the new language features together with the major fact that on Java 5 the new concurrency code ...

Can two brokers share the same database The short answer is no; 2 brokers cannot operate on the same sets of database tables concurrently. ActiveMQ is designed for high performance so we want to minimise the amount of pessimistic locking; each broker ...

You can browse queues, can you browse a topic? No. But then consuming messages on a topic does not affect any other consumers, so you don't need to 'browse' per se, just subscribe. i.e. browsing is necessary on queues as you ...

you get an error something like this... javax.jms.JMSException: start failed: Received fatal alert: certificateunknown at org.activemq.transport.tcp.TcpTransportChannel.start(TcpTransportChannel.java:200) at org.activemq.broker.impl.BrokerConnectorImpl.addClient(BrokerConnectorImpl.java:308) at org.activemq.transport.TransportServerChannelSupport.addClient(TransportServerChannelSupp at org.activemq.transport.tcp.TcpTransportServerChannel.run(TcpTransportServerChannel.java:1 at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Caused by: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Received ...

New Features in 4.0 MasterSlave provides support for continuous availability and fault tolerance of brokers to be able to handle catastrophic hardware failure and not loose a message (or get duplicates). A new Exclusive Consumer feature allows you to pin message processing to a single ...

Class Diagrams for activemq4.0M4 source code. These diagrams cover the bulk of the source code and are in EMF format.&nbsp; http://docs.codehaus.org/download/attachments/50288/ClassDiagramsactivemq4.0M4.zip Note about conversion to other formats:&nbsp; Some files when converted to something like JPG ...

Clustering is a large area and often means different things to different people. We'll try to list the various aspects of clustering and how they relate to ActiveMQ Queue consumer clusters We support reliable high performance load balancing of messages on a queue ...

page has moved here http://activemq.apache.org/cms

Architecture The following section walks through the main parts of Apache ActiveMQ and links to the code to help you understand the layout !http://activemq.apache.org/images/BrokerDiagram.png! JMS Client The org.apache.activemq http://incubator.apache.org/activemq/maven/activemqcore/apidocs/org/apache ...

Command Agent From 4.2 onwards Apache ActiveMQ allows you to communicate with a broker Command Agent to be able to perform administration queries and commands. This allows you to use the message bus itself to communicate with the message broker to list available queues ...

You can use GCJ http://gcc.gnu.org/java/ to build ActiveMQ as a shared library you can reuse from C. Native compile ActiveMQ HOWTO Abstract This document describes how to native compile ActiveMQ for use in a C environment ...

Example of an ActiveMQ configuration with predefined queues, simple destination security (could easily update it to JAAS), complex Web Console security with Jetty JAAS, and JMX security too. While this is a fairly detailed configuration, it locks down every ActiveMQ ...

version 1.1, ActiveMQ supports a technology we call composite destinations. This allows a single virtual JMS Destination to be used to represent a collection of JMS Destinations. For example you can use composite destinations to send a message to 12 physical queues ...

Starting with 5.3.1, ActiveMQ provides configurable IOException handling for its filebased message stores. From version 5.5 the handler is also invoked when the JDBC persistence adapter gets a failure on getConnection(). Default IOException handler ActiveMQ comes with a default ...

Questions on configuring ActiveMQ's JMS client or the Message Broker

Typically in Apache ActiveMQ we create destinations on demand How do I create new destinations as clients start to use them. However sometimes users want to be able to configure which destinations are available on startup explicitly in the Xml Configuration ...

Overview There is an updates XML syntax for configuring message brokers see here http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core/activemqcore5.0SNAPSHOT.xsd So we decided that using XML would make this configuration much easier. we use XBean http://xbean.org ...

configuration of ActiveMQ is so slick, we decided to take a similar approach with ActiveMQCPP. All configuration is achieved via URIencoded parameters, either on the connection or destinations. Through the URIs, you can configure virtually every facet of your ActiveMQCPP client ...

Overview In ActiveMQ 4, we are using a new xml format to configure the broker. Syntax The following xsd describes the syntax of the broker configuration file. activemq4.0.xsd And here is the reference documentation for that xsd file. activemq4.0.xsd.html Example <beans xmlns="http://activemq.org ...

Transport configuration options One of the first kinds of URI you are likely to use is a transport URI to connect to a broker using a kind of transport. Generally TCP or VM are the first transports you'll use. All of the following URI configurations are based on the java.net.URI ...

OpenWire Wire Format OpenWire is the default Wire Format that ActiveMQ uses.&nbsp; It provides a highly efficent binary format for high speed messaging.&nbsp; OpenWire options can be configured on a JMS client's connection URI string or on a Brokers transport ...

Connection Configuration URI An Apache ActiveMQ connection can be configured by explicitly setting properties on the ActiveMQConnection http://incubator.apache.org/activemq/maven/activemqcore/apidocs/org/apache/activemq/ActiveMQConnection.html or ActiveMQConnectionFactory http://incubator.apache.org/activemq/maven/activemqcore/apidocs ...

outbound' Connection Factory objects used to send messages by default use the connection configuration properties of the Resource Adapter deployment, but those properties can be overridden per connection factory. The Connection Factory properties that can be configured are: Property Name Required ...

Apache ActiveMQ is designed to support a large number if Cross Language Clients, speak a wide range of Protocols and be usable in a wide variety of Containers in addition to being usable in a stand alone Java SE platform. Additional Resources FuseSource ActiveMQ Connectivity ...

Overview In AMQ4, the choice of a broker performing synchronous or asynchronous dispatch to a consumer has become more configurable. It is now configured as a default value on the connection URI, Connection and ConnectionFactory Connection Configuration URI together with being customizable on a per consumer basis ...

Background As well as having a pluggable dispatch policy (e.g. round robin etc), we now support consumer priorities. This allows us to weight consumers to optimise network hops. For example, you typically want a broker to send messages to regular ...

page lists the various containers that Apache ActiveMQ works inside

many ways you can help make ActiveMQ a better piece of software please dive in and help\! Try surf the documentation if somethings confusing or not clear, let us know. Download the code & try it out and see what you think ...

Error Could not find PacketReader for packet type: UNKNOWN PACKET TYPE: 102 Reason You are probably using different versions of ActiveMQ jars on the client and the broker. Try using the same jars on each node and the problem should go away ...

Apache ActiveMQ is a message broker written in Java together with a full JMS client. However Apache ActiveMQ is designed to communicate over a number of protocols such as Stomp and OpenWire together with supporting a number of different language specific clients. Language Clients Apart ...

Web Browsing of CVS To browse CVS via the web use the FishEye interface http://cvs.activemq.codehaus.org/ CVS Access behind a firewall For those developers who are stuck behind a corporate firewall, you could try ask your firewall administrator ...

ActiveMQ from version 5.4 has an optional persistent scheduler built into the ActiveMQ message broker. It is enabled by setting the broker schedulerSupport attribute to true in the xml configuration. An ActiveMQ client can take advantage of a delayed delivery by using ...

Sometimes you might want to delete destinations that are inactive for a period of time. Since ActiveMQ version 5.4.0, it's possible to do that using destination policy entries and broker attribute schedulePeriodForDestinationPurge > 0. For example a configuration like <broker xmlns="http://activemq.apache.org ...

Delphi and FreePascal Client Habari ActiveMQ Client is a library for Delphi(tm) and Free Pascal. With Habari, applications can connect to Apache ActiveMQ servers, subscribe to queues and topics, send and receive messages and objects, and work with transactions. Supported Communication Libraries ...

Slow Consumers Durable Queue Memory Management Supporting IO Streams Message Redelivery and DLQ Handling Multicast Transport Proposed C Client Architecture REST protocols

Background Destination Options are a way to provide extended configuration options to a JMS consumer without having to extend the JMS API. The options are encoded using URL query syntax in the destination name that the consumer is created on. Consumer Options Option Name Default ...

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following documents might be interesting Building Release Plans Release Guide Design Documents Changes in 4.0 Apache ActiveMQ Board Reports Code walkthrough Code Overview Wire Protocol Developing Plugins

Questions for developers wishing to extend or enhance Apache ActiveMQ

Apache ActiveMQ is based on the model of POJOs and Dependency Injection. If you are developing Interceptors or additional components or plugins for ActiveMQ then the first thing you should do is develop the code as if you are writing any other Spring component, using dependency injection ...

Discovery Agents ActiveMQ uses an abstraction called a Discovery Agent http://actievmq.apache.org/maven/activemqcore/apidocs/org/apache/activemq/transport/discovery/DiscoveryAgent.html to detect remote services such as remote brokers. We can use discovery for JMS ...

Discovery Transport The Discovery transport works just like the Failover Failover Transport Reference transport, except that it uses a discovery agent to locate the list of uri to connect to. The Discovery transport is also used by the Fanout Fanout Transport Reference transport for discovering ...

Before posting you might want to read the Tips for getting help. Many users prefer to use online forums rather than joining a mail list which can lead to lots more email traffic so we use ...

Dispatch Policies ActiveMQ 4.0 or later supports the configuration of different dispatch policies on a per destination (or wildcard) basis. Before discussing dispatch policies its worth first understanding the purpose of the prefetch value What is the prefetch limit for. The out of the box ...

Yes, though there are various kinds of clustering. See this page on details Clustering

Quite possibly :). See the JDBC Support page for details of how to configure for your database or how to let us know of a database which does not work. Also see Persistence

Latest Releases The latest stable release is the ActiveMQ 5.5.1 Release Help us test the latest SNAPSHOTS https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/apache/activemq/apacheactivemq/ All Releases Maven Repositories All ActiveMQ releases are available ...

ActiveMQ CPP distributions are sourceonly. To get the source bundle for a particular release, go here Download. Follow the instructions here only if you want the bleeding edge from trunk. Web Browsing of SVN To browse via the web use the ViewVC ...

Disaster Recovery. Typically this means having multiple data centres configured such that if there is a major catastrophy and an entire data centre is lost, messages are replicated to another location so the systems can continue running

current 3.x code can have issues with massive queues with unacknowledged messages; its complex due to consumption from multiple points in the queue, consumers coming & going, selectors matching only certain points in the queue etc. This page outlines ...

ActiveMQ 5.4.1 you can encrypt your passwords and safely store them in configuration files. To encrypt the password, you can use the newly added {{encrypt}} command like: $ bin/activemq encrypt password activemq input mypassword ... Encrypted ...

Enterprise Integration Patterns Version 5.0 onwards of Apache ActiveMQ comes complete with full support for the Enterprise Integration Patterns http://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/toc.html (from the excellent book by Gregor Hohpe http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/searchhandleurl/10597967988100401?%5Fencoding=UTF8 ...

Questions on specific kinds of errors. If you have seen a specific exception then check the Exceptions

ActiveMQ Performance Module Users Manual ActiveMQ Performance Module Users Manual Example Testing Scenario This page gives a simple example of the kinds of thing we wanna do. Assuming that all the test code is within a single Maven POM ...

Before running the examples you should try running a JMS broker Run Broker on your machine. Follow the Installation instructions to use a binary distribution of ActiveMQ. To run the broker in a command shell, type: bin/activemq This starts up ActiveMQ ...

Questions Java Exceptions (when you get a nasty stack trace while working with ActiveMQ

Background We maintain the order of messages in queues and dispatch them to consumers in order. However if you have multiple JMS Sessions and MessageConsumer instances consuming from the same queue (whether in the same JVM or not), you will loose the guarantee of processing the messages ...

Failover Transport The Failover transport layers reconnect logic on top of any of the other transports. (We used to call this transport the Reliable transport in ActiveMQ 3). The Failover configuration syntax allows you to specify any number of composite uris. The Failover ...

Fanout Transport The Fanout transport layers reconnect and replication logic on top of any of the other transports. It utilizes the Discovery Discovery Transport Reference transport to discover brokers and replicates commands to those brokers. Configuration Syntax fanout:(discoveryURI)?transportOptions or fanout ...

FAQ Here are a list of commonly asked questions and answers. If you have any questions which are not on this list, please talk to us on the forums Discussion Forums. We welcome contributions Contributing and this entire website is a wiki that you can edit How ...

Apache ActiveMQ Features Apache ActiveMQ is packed with features; to get an idea you might want to look at the Features Overview otherwise here is the list of all of the main features

Supports a variety of Cross Language Clients and Protocols Cross Language Clients from Java, C, C, C#, Ruby, Perl, Python, PHP OpenWire for high performance clients in Java, C, C, C# Stomp support so that clients ...

General questions about ActiveMQ

ActiveMQ is the default JMS provider in Apache Geronimo http://geronimo.apache.org. ActiveMQ can be used both as JMS Client and a JMS Broker. This short article explains how to use it on a standalone client to access the topics/queues setup on a remote Geronimo/ActiveMQ ...

Introduction This document describes how to install and configure ActiveMQ 4.x/5.x for both Unix and Windows' platforms. Document Organization The Getting Started Guide for ActiveMQ 4.x document contains the following sections: #Introduction #Document Organization #PreInstallation Requirements #Installation Procedure ...

Introduction This document describes how to install and configure ActiveMQ 3.x for both Unix and Windows' platforms. Document Organization The Getting Started Guide for ActiveMQ 3.x document contains the following sections: #Introduction #Document Organization #PreInstallation Requirements #Installation Procedure ...

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ActiveBlaze supports group membership using a GroupChannel which can be created from a GroupChannelFactory. You have to explicitly say which group you want to join/leave and you can join multiple groups. Each GroupChannel has both ...

High Availability. This typically refers to having a number of available instances of a service (such as a Message Broker) such that if the instance you're connected to fails, you can failover quickly to another instance providing high availabliity and resilience

following is a very simple JMS application with multiple, concurrent, consumers and producers. See the Initial Configuration guide for details on how to setup your classpath correctly. Things you might do after running this example: Setup a broker Run Broker ...

You can use ActiveMQ with Hermes JMS http://hermesjms.sourceforge.net/ which is a graphical user interface for working with JMS queues. Please refer to the Hermes JMS http://hermesjms.sourceforge.net/ site for detailed instructions on using this software. Demo Mark Bucayan kindly ...

following is an example of running HermesJms with ActiveMQ on OS X !http://activemq.codehaus.org/hermes.png

ActiveMQ is specifically designed to allow custom transports to be plugged in. You can programatically create TransportConnector instances and add them to the BrokerService in Java code using the BrokerService.addConnector() method http://activemq.codehaus.org/maven/apidocs/org/apache/activemq/broker/BrokerService.html ...

Use the VM transport and see details on how to disable serialization to pass by value How should I use the VM transport

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How can I enable detailed logging We use commonslogging so you can use that to enable debug tracing http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/logging/apidocs/org/apache/commons/logging/impl/SimpleLog.html. Or if you've got log4j.jar ...

How can I get a list of the topics and queues in a broker? As of 5.1.0 you can use the new DestinationSource http://activemq.apache.org/maven/activemqcore/apidocs/org/apache/activemq/advisory/DestinationSource.html on an ActiveMQConnection to access the available queues or topics ...

See the ActiveMQ Tuning Guide http://fusesource.com/wiki/display/ProdInfo/FUSEMessageBrokerPerformanceTuningGuide

How can I monitor ActiveMQ In ActiveMQ 4.x you can monitor the broker to see what destinations are being used, their activity along with connections and subscriptions using the following tools JMX and a JMX console such as jConsole http://java.sun.com/developer ...

How can I monitor the connection with the broker You can monitor the status of the connection with the broker via the addTransportListener() method on the ActiveMQConnection http://activemq.apache.org/maven/activemqcore/apidocs/org/apache/activemq/ActiveMQConnection.html#addTransportListener(org.apache.activemq.transport.TransportListener). This method takes a TransportListener ...

easiest way is to use JMX by pointing your JMX console or JConsole at the broker JVM. You can also get all of the active destinations from the broker using Java code via getDestinations() http://activemq.apache.org/maven/activemqcore/apidocs ...

How can I support auto reconnection? Networks are unreliable and sockets do get dropped from time to time (it could be a network glitch, dodgy router, firewall, or someone could even just restart a broker). You often want ...

How can I support priority queues? Use Message Priority A common requirement is to support priority consumption; so high priority messages are consumed before low priority. In version 5.4 priority queues are supported. Both the message cursors ...

easy configuration, ActiveMQ supports a configurable URL to denote the connection mechanism to other clients. There is an example of how to do this along with a description of the available protocols in the Protocols overview URI Protocols

various Topologies that you can employ with ActiveMQ, where clients are connected to message brokers in various ways like peer based client server hub and spoke Each client communicates with a broker using some kind of client library and network ...

Durable queues keep messages around persistently for any suitable consumer to consume them. Durable queues do not need to concern themselves with which consumer is going to consume the messages at some point in the future. There is just one copy of a message that any ...

See the C Integration page for the available options

Use Stomp http://stomp.codehaus.org/ which is a simple to implement client protocol for working with ActiveMQ and other messaging systems

See Developing Plugins for how to add your own functionality into Apache ActiveMQ

You can use the \o switch (for offline mode) to avoid maven autodownloading new snapshot jars (e.g. the Geronimo jars at the time of writing). maven o or to run a server go to the \assembly module and run maven o server

creating a backup, there may be an issue with the lock file, or with an inuse journal file. The lock file is not important but you would want the latest journal files. # Freeze the filesystem containing the database to ensure that you get a consistent snapshot of the journal ...

bridge from ActiveMQ to another JMS provider use the JMS bridge jms to jms bridge. To bridge to another kind of transport completely, use Camel http://camel.apache.org or ServiceMix http://servicemix.apache.org

How do I build but disable the unit tests The test cases in ActiveMQ can take a very long time to run! :) To disable this you can try the following mvn install Dmaven.test.skip=true

much simpler and more powerful in ActiveMQ 4.0 you can configure different Dispatch Policies directly. For now in ActiveMQ 3.x we have a PrefetchPolicy configuration What is the prefetch limit for. This allows a certain number of messages to be dispatched to a consumer before ...

How do I change the logging We use commonslogging http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/logging/ to log information in the broker client and the broker itself so you can fully configure which logging levels are used and whether to log to files ...

Embedded brokers create an ActiveMQ directory under the current working directory to store it's persistent message data. To change the location of the directory used by the message store, set the activemq.store.dir system property to the directory you want it to use. Example: java ...

How do I compile from the source code? See the Building page

Windows XP: 1. Download AIO (Asynchronous IO for Java) from IBM (http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/aio4j). 2. Unzip the downloaded file and copy the following files: ibmaio.dll ibmaio1.0.jar 3. Place ibmaio.dll into Windows System32 folder. (You may ...

JMS broker goes down, ActiveMQ can automatically reconnect to an available JMS broker using the failover: protocol. Not only does this automatically reconnect, it will also resume any temporary destinations, sessions, producers and most importantly consumers. All ...

How do I configure distributed queues or topics You don't need to explicitly configure distributed queues or topics How do I configure the queues I want as any queue or topic is automatically distributed across other brokers ...

ActiveMQ there is no real resaon to explicitly setup/configure the queues you are gonna need. If you try to publish or subscribe from any queue or topic it will be silently created on the fly. Sometimes people put destinations into JNDI so that they can be pulled out ...

You can specify a list of URLs to connect to (for example if you have message brokers running on a number of machines). To specify a list of URLs, use a comma separated list of URLs with a prefix of list:. e.g. list:tcp://localhost:61699,tcp://localhost ...

you want to consume messages in a different order, or consume specific messages at the head, middle or tail of the queue, you can browse the messages using the QueueBrowser to find the JMSMessageID's of the messages you want to consume create a new consumer with a selector matching ...

ActiveMQ you do not have to create destinations up front before you can use them. The ActiveMQ broker autocreates the physical resources associated with a destination on demand (i.e. when messages are sent to a new destination on a broker). This means that a client ...

One option is to run your broker in the same JVM as your application; see how to unit test jms code. Or you can try uncommenting ACTIVEMQDEBUGOPTS in your activemq start script (bin/activemq or bin\activemq.bat) and start remote ...

feature is only available in ActiveMQ 4.0 &nbsp; TCP based transport protocols (including SSL) allow you to define the local address and local port for Socket to use when it's created. This can be useful for clients that reside on multihomed machines or for clients ...

How do I delete a destination via Java code or JMX you can grab the BrokerViewMBean http://activemq.apache.org/maven/activemqcore/apidocs/org/apache/activemq/broker/jmx/BrokerViewMBean.html and call one of the following methods removeQueue(String ...

How do I disable logging? See How do I change the logging

three main ways to disable persistence, such as for unit testing JMS code # Set the NONPERSISTENT message delivery flag on your MessageProducer # Set the persistent=false flag in the <broker/> element of the Xml Configuration or on the property BrokerService http://incubator.apache.org/activemq/maven ...

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many messaging topologies there are JMS Brokers (server side) and a JMS client side. Often it makes sense to deploy a broker within your JVM. This allows you to optimise away a network hop; making the networking of JMS as efficient as pure RMI ...

default setting for ActiveMQ is that all persistent messages outside of a transaction are sent to a broker are synchronous. This means that the send method is blocked until the message is received by the broker, its then written to disk then a response is returned to the client and the send() unblocks with success or throws a JMSException ...

How do I enable debug logging? For background see How do I change the logging. You can enable debug logging in ActiveMQ by adding the following line to the {{conf/log4j.properties}} file log4j.logger.org.apache.activemq=DEBUG

How do I check on the size of the queue? I know it's not JMS standard, but most JMS implementations have a way to do this. You can view the queue depth using the MBeans in ActiveMQ 4.x. Use any JMX management console ...

How do I get started with JMS Your best way to get started understanding the JMS API is Sun's JMS tutorial http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/tutorial/doc/JMS.html#wp84181. Alternatively you could stick to writing business ...

Durability of messages is defined by the MessagerProducer http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/api/javax/jms/MessageProducer.html. You can explicitly configure the durability via the setDeliveryMode() method http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/api/javax/jms/MessageProducer.html#setDeliveryMode(int). e.g. MessageProducer ...

ActiveMQ will preserve the order of messages sent by a single producer to all consumers on a topic. If there is a single consumer on a queue then the order of messages sent by a single producer will be preserved as well. If you have multiple consumers on a single queue the consumers will compete for messages and ActiveMQ ...

frequent requirement is to purge a queue (i.e. delete all the messages on it). Solution You can use the Web Console to view queues, add/remove queues, purge queues or delete/forward individual messages. Another option is to use JMX to browse ...

Pure restart of the embedded broker is not advisable, since it's state could be corrupted. Therefore, you're advised to instantiate the broker again before restarting it. BrokerService service = BrokerFactory.createBroker("xbean:activemq.xml"); service.start(); service.waitUntilStarted(); service.stop(); service.waitUntilStopped(); service = BrokerFactory.createBroker("xbean:activemq.xml ...

How do I restrict connections from creating new queues or topics? As is described in How do I create new destinations there is no need to create all the destinations up front, you can let the broker create them on the fly ...

ActiveMQ 3.x/4.x Please see the running a broker page Run Broker

ActiveMQ will run under Kaffe with a few adjustments to the default configuration. We have found the Kaffe does not properly implement: File based NIO Multicast Sockets JMX connector JNDI handling Therefore, the default ActiveMQ configuration must be adjusted ...

How do I send messages to different Destinations from a single MessageProducer? Create the MessageProducer using a null destination; then specify the destination each time you send... MessageProducer producer = session.createProducer(null); ... producer.send(someDestination, message); ... producer.send(anotherDestination ...

JMSExpiration on a message is set by the MessageProducer in JMS either via producer.setTimeToLive() http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/api/javax/jms/MessageProducer.html#setTimeToLive(long) producer.send(Destination, Message, int, int, long) http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/api/javax/jms/MessageProducer.html ...

You can turn off auto creation by setting the create property on the VM Transport to false: ActiveMQConnectionFactory cf = new ActiveMQConnectionFactory("vm://localhost?create=false

explicit "unack" command in Stomp. Once the client receives the message it cannot be marked as "unconsumed" and sent to another subscriber (or redelivered to the same subscriber again). It's up to your application (or Stomp client) to handle failed processing of received messages and implement "message ...

ActiveMQ 3.x/4.x To use pure inmemory messaging you just need to set the broker URL to be vm://localhost &nbsp; Actually you can use any text after vm:// so that you can segment multiple logical JMS ...

ivyconf> <!loads properties file as ivy variables, 0..n> <properties file="$ /ivyconffile.properties" /> <!configures ivy with some defaults, 0..1> <conf defaultResolver="localChain" checkUpToDate="false" /> <!typedef:defines new types in ivy> <!lateststrategies: defines latest ...

How do I use JMS efficiently? JMS is designed for high performance. In particular its design is such that you are meant to create a number of objects up front on the startup of your application and then resuse them throughout your application. e.g. its ...

Log4j JMS appender http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/apidocs/org/apache/log4j/net/JMSAppender.html can be used to send your log messages to JMS broker. To use ActiveMQ as a destination of your messages, you need to configure JMS appender properly. The code sample ...

Setting up the Key and Trust Stores Also see Tomcat's SSL instructions http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat5.5doc/sslhowto.html for more info. The following was provided by Colin Kilburn. Thanks Colin! ActiveMQ includes key and trust stores that reference a dummy self ...

Selectors are just filters. Message Groups are a way of grouping messages together to the same consumer to partition your application or insure ordering is maintained. Now you could implement message groups by hand, by having each consumer use its own ...

ActiveMQ 3.x/4.x The transport a client uses to connect to the broker is just the transport your client uses. So messages the broker sends to your client will be sent over that transport. However the broker can support many transports. So client A could ...

2 kinds of transaction support in ActiveMQ. JMS transactions the commit() / rollback() methods on a Session (which is like doing commit() / rollback() on a JDBC connection) XA Transactions where the XASession http://activemq.apache.org/maven/activemqcore/apidocs/org/apache/activemq ...

Topics In JMS a Topic implements publish and subscribe semantics. When you publish a message it goes to all the subscribers who are interested so zero to many subscribers will receive a copy of the message. Only subscribers who had an active subscription ...

AMQP stands for the Advanced Message Queue Protocol and is a specification for how messaging clients and brokers can interoperate. AMQP is a specification of a wirelevel protocol for client to message broker communication. It is not a messaging system like ActiveMQ, but just a messaging protocol. ActiveMQ is aiming ...

Fuse Message Broker http://fusesource.com/products/enterpriseactivemq/ is a certified distribution of Apache ActiveMQ provided by FuseSource. FuseSource http://fusesource.com does all of its development and bug fixes as part of the Apache ActiveMQ community, so there are no functional differences between ...

some similarities between the two; they both support JMS 1.1 and run inside JBoss 4.x JBoss Integration. However ActiveMQ does offer some specific differences and advantages (at least from our perspective) ActiveMQ works great in any ...

We are obviously biased, and will tell you "just use ActiveMQ!" :) But Mantaray is an OK JMS provider. The interesting thing about MantaRay is it can support a peerbased network, just as ActiveMQ does with its peer transport Peer Transport Reference ...

Apache ActiveMQ is a messaging provider, with extensive capabilities for message brokering. Mule is described as an ESB, in that it defines and executes the brokering of message exchanges among integrated software components. Architecture Mule provides an accessible programming model for integration, designed ...

Spread Toolkit is a C library for messaging and only has partial support for JMS http://www.spread.org/JMS4Spread/docs/. It doesn't support durable messaging, transactions, XA or full JMS 1.1. It is also dependent on a native code Spread daemon running on the machine ...

How does ConnectionFactory relate to the Broker? The ConnectionFactory is a JMS specification client side interface for creating connections to a JMS broker. The Broker is a service on the network or embedded in the same JVM How do I embed a Broker inside a Connection which provides ...

Certainly they both do similar things. The main difference between them is their history and design criteria. JMS has a bunch of different qualities of service (durable v nondurable, queue v topic) designed for very high performance messaging with low ...

Brokers cannot share a journal. Each must be configured with it's own journal

OpenWire is the native protocol that Apache ActiveMQ uses. It is designed for performance and size on the wire sacrificing some ease of implementation with higher performance and reduced network bandwidth as a priority. OpenWire was first released in Apache ActiveMQ 4.0. Stomp is a simpler text based ...

See the description here Persistence

website is actually rendered from the Wiki contents that you can edit How do I edit the website. When viewing a page on the static HTML website you can click on the edit link (bottom of the page) and you can edit ...

Spring 2.0 has introduced the ability to handle custom XML languages inside the spring.xml. This is something we developed XBean http://geronimo.apache.org/xbean/ for way back in the Spring 1.x days. The Spring hook requires component developers to write their own ...

How fast is ActiveMQ? It all depends on the configuration, the operating system, hardware, JVM, JVM configuration and what you're doing. For more details see Performance

ActiveMQ 3.x/4.x It depends :) If you are in a JMS transaction, are using nondurable messaging then its fairly lightweight and fast typically just blocking until the message has got onto the socket buffer. Though if you are using durable messaging and not using JMS ...

How should I implement request response with JMS? The simplest solution is to use Camel as a Spring Remoting provider http://activemq.apache.org/camel/springremoting.html which allows you to hide all the JMS API from your business logic and letting ...

How should I package applications using Camel and ActiveMQ So you may wish to use Camel's Enterprise Integration Patterns inside the ActiveMQ Broker. In which case the stand alone broker is already packaged to work with Camel out ...

ActiveMQ 3.x/4.x Using the VM transport How do I use ActiveMQ using in JVM messaging to connect to an inJVM broker is the fastest and most efficient transport you can use. This is because by default there is no serialization to a socket or operating system ...

ActiveMQ explicity supports Derby, Axion, HSQL, Oracle, and SQLServer. Below are the steps on how to configure a new database. 1. Modify activemq.xml found in the directory "activemqhome/conf" by editing or adding a JDBC DataSource Configuration. e.g. <bean id="mysqlds ...

guide on how to deploy ActiveMQ's resouce adapter to weblogic 9.1. # Create a new domain in weblogic using the configuration wizard (Start menu BEA Products \> Tools \> configuration Wizard ). # Add the jar dependencies (these are the jars inside the rar file..for some ...

default, the ActiveMQ xml configuration Xml Configuration includes the multicast discovery Discovery mechanism. The tcp transport connector advertises its self using multicast and a multicast network connector is configured to listen to the same address. In this way, all brokers that share ...

When unit testing code with JMS you'll typically want to avoid the overhead of running separate proceses; plus you'll want to increase startup time as fast as possible as you tend to run unit tests often and want immediate feedback ...

How to Help Everyone in the ActiveMQ community can help with releases; users, developers, commmiters are all encouraged to test out a release and post any comments to the activemqdev@ mailing list Mailing Lists or create a JIRA https://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse ...

HTTP and HTTPS Transports The HTTP and HTTPS transports are used to tunnel over HTTP or HTTPS using XML payloads. This allows the ActiveMQ client and broker to tunnel over HTTP avoiding any firewall issues. If the client is not JMS you might want ...

I am having problems with the Spring JmsTemplate For more detail see the JmsTemplate Gotchas page along with the Spring Support

I am not receiving any messages what is wrong? A very common gotcha when working with JMS is forgetting to start the JMS connection, creating a consumer and not having it receive any messages. I myself have tripped up over this one ...

Make sure that the machine you are talking to has a valid java.rmi.server.hostnameproperty value e.g. on unix (OS X, Linux, Solaris) export ACTIVEMQOPTS=$ACTIVEMQOPTS Djava.rmi.server.hostname=<hostname> activemq or on Windows SET ACTIVEMQOPTS=%ACTIVEMQOPTS% Djava.rmi.server.hostname=<hostname> activemq

Scenario You send 100 messages to a queue. Start consumer A, it receives the message You start another consumer B, it doesn't receive any messages. You kill A. Consumer B receives messages now, why? Answer This is to do with prefetch ...

We currently use a multiproject maven build system, which can be a little fragile. If you are ever having problems building we suggest you try the following in the root activemq directory mvn clean rm rf /.m2/repository mvn ...

Durable subscription ClientIds and SubscriptionNames using the NC prefix are the result of durable subscriptions in a networks of brokers. When a durable subscription is being forwarded by a network connector (or demand forwarding bridge), the network durable subscription needs to outlive the subscription that created it. This is achieved ...

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Configuring an MDB to receive messages from ActiveMQ There are three MDBs declared in the ejbjar.xml JBoss Integrationejbjar.xml deployment descriptor. For this example, I will be explaining how to configure the {{TopicDurableMDB}} to be invoked by JBoss when a message is received on an ActiveMQ Topic. The Bean ...

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Initial Configuration Document Organization #Required JARs #Optional JARS #Persistence Support #Next steps #Additional Resources #Related Reading #Specifications #Related open source projects Firstly you need to add the jars to your classpath. Required JARs ...

Download a binary distribution of ActiveMQ and unpack it into some directory. To run an ActiveMQ broker, type the following commands from the directory in which you have just unpacked the ActiveMQ distribution. cd bin activemq The ActiveMQ broker should now ...

Integrating Apache ActiveMQ with JBoss Integration with application servers is a common scenario in the enterprise Java world, especially when it comes to messaging. ActiveMQ http://activemq.org/ is a JMS 1.1 compliant, open source, Apache Licensed, message oriented middleware (MOM ...

Integration Tests validate that ActiveMQ Resource Adapter operate correctly when deployed with a J2EE application running in an Application Server such as Apache Geronimo. Getting Ready The instructions on this page reference a few directories that you will need to substitute appropriate values ...

ActiveMQ has a sophisticated interceptor stack so that you can attach whatever functionality you require into the broker in an easy way without complicating all of the other broker code. This has really helped us keep the code clean ...

you get an exception looking like this Reason: java.io.exception : could not find class for resource: METAINF/services/org/apache/activemq/transport/tcp &nbsp; Cause You are probably using the ActiveMQ source code without using the resources ...

preferred" size for each log file of the journal. By default there are 2 20 meg log files

J2EE 1.4 or later the standard way to integrate with a JMS provider is via JCA 1.5 and a Resource Adapter

page provides some useful information on running the ActiveMQ broker as a windowsNT service or a daemon thread in Linux or Unix systems. &nbsp;WindowsNT Service Here are the steps to install the ActiveMQ broker as an NT service: # Download the windows binary distribution ...

you get an error like this Jun 19, 2006 10:35:27 PM org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerService getBroker INFO: ActiveMQ 4.0 JMS Message Broker (localhost) is starting Jun 19, 2006 10:35:27 PM org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerService ...

you get an error like java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.jms.Session.createConsumer(Ljavax/jms/Destination;)Ljavax/jms/MessageConsumer; or java.lang.AbstractMethodError: javax.jms.ConnectionFactory.createConnection()Ljavax/jms/Connection; Fix You probably have old JMS 1.0.2b versions of the JMS API on your classpath ...

you get an error like this 20050814 17:18:45,618 ERROR org.jboss.resource.deployment.RARDeployment Starting failed jboss.jca:service=RARDeployment,name='activemqra3.0.rar' org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: Error for resource adapter class org.activemq.ra.ActiveMQResourceAdapter accessing property setter ConfigPropertyMetaData@e62121name=UseEmbeddedBroker ...

Ok, this is manageable. It is possible to configure just about all of the memory utilisation of ActiveMQ. The first thing to determine is what part of the system is running out of memory. Is it the JVM, the broker, the consumers or the producers? This entry refers to ActiveMQ versions 5.1.x and greater. Memory ...

JavaDocs for Apache ActiveMQ 5.x JavaDocs for the 5.x version of Apache ActiveMQ could be found at http://activemq.apache.org/maven/x.x.x/module/apidocs/ kind of url, where x.x.x is broker version and module is module you're looking for. For example http://activemq.apache.org ...

you get exception like this: javax.jms.JMSException: Wire format negociation timeout: peer did not send his wire format. at org.apache.activemq.util.JMSExceptionSupport.create(JMSExceptionSupport.java:58) at org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnection.syncSendPacket(ActiveMQConnection.java:1185) at org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnection.ensureConnectionInfoSent(ActiveMQConnection.java:1263) at org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnection.start(ActiveMQConnection.java:449) it can mean one ...

When using JDK 6 (up to JDK 6 Update 3) to run ActiveMQ you can run into this exception. There are two solutions to this: Upgrade to JDK to 1.6.004 or above, which includes JAXB 2.1 Copy JAXB 2.1 to <JAVAHOME>/lib ...

When using JDK 6 (up to JDK 6 Update 3) to run ActiveMQ you can run into this exception. There are two solutions to this: Upgrade to JDK to 1.6.004 or above, which includes JAXB 2.1 Copy JAXB 2.1 to <JAVAHOME>/lib ...

Using the ActiveMQ Resource Adapter, I recently integrated ActiveMQ with JBoss. The integration included both inbound and outbound messages. Inbound messages were handled by Message Driven Beans (MDBs) and outbound messages were published by an EJB Stateless ...

We will continune to support the ActiveMQ JCA Container up until ActiveMQ 3.1. After that point we will be moving to Jencks http://jencks.codehaus.org/ which is a migration of the ActiveMQ codebase together with code Geronimo http://geronimo.apache.org and from some other contributors ...

JDBC Master Slave First supported in ActiveMQ version 4.1 If you are using pure JDBC and not using the high performance journal then you are generally relying on your database as your single point of failure and persistence engine. If you do not have ...

We support a range of SQL databases for message persistence such as Apache Derby Axion DB2 HSQL Informix MaxDB MySQL Oracle Postgresql SQLServer Sybase as well as a number of generic JDBC providers. Autodiscovery of your JDBC provider We try ...

JMeter performance test You can use JMeter to test the performance of your ActiveMQ Server. Please refer to the JMeter site http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/ for detailed instructions on using this software. Downloading the JMeter Performance Test Binary You can ...

JMeter System Tests You can use JMeter to test your ActiveMQ Server. Please refer to the JMeter site for detailed instructions on using this software. The Test would check for duplicate messages and the order of messages received. Building a Test Plan ...

Questions on using the JMS API and MOM MOM Message Orientated Middleware in general

JMS and JDBC operations in one transaction with Spring/Jencks/ActiveMQ Spring beans: <beans> <! ActiveMQ Broker > <bean id="broker" class="org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerService" initmethod="start" destroymethod="stop"> <property name="persistent" value="false"/> <property name="transportConnectorURIs ...

Example of a configuration that shows how to use a BridgeConnector to make a connection to the local ActiveMQ broker. <beans> <! Allows us to use system properties as variables in this configuration file > <bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"/> <broker useJmx="true" persistent="false" xmlns="http ...

Example of a configuration that shows how to connect to Oracle AQ queues and topics. <beans> <! Allows us to use system properties as variables in this configuration file > <bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"/> <broker useJmx="true" persistent="false" xmlns="http://activemq.org/config/1.0 ...

Example of a configuration that shows how to use a BridgeConnector to make a connection to a remote ActiveMQ broker. <beans> <! Allows us to use system properties as variables in this configuration file > <bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"/> <broker useJmx="true" persistent="false" xmlns="http ...

Example of a configuration that shows how to use a BridgeConnector to make a connection to a remote TIBCO EMS broker. <beans> <! Allows us to use system properties as variables in this configuration file > <bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"/> <broker useJmx="true" persistent="false" xmlns ...

Sometimes you need to send truly massive files (many Gb) around the network in a reliable manner. The JMS API expects JMS clients to be able to keep a message in memory at one time, so sending > 1Gb messages around ends ...

Introduction ActiveMQ provides bridging functionality to other JMS providers that implement the JMS 1.0.2 and above specification. A JMS bridge can be colocated with an ActiveMQ broker or run remotely. In order to support JMS 1.0.2 there is seperation between Queues and Topics ...

thing to remember is JmsTemplate is designed for use in EJBs using the EJB containers JMS pooling abstraction. So every method will typically create a connection, session, producer or consumer, do something, then close them all down again. The idea being ...

JMSXUserID support It is sometimes useful to know the authenticated username of the sender of a message. This is not added by default but you can enable it by setting the populateJMSXUserID property on the broker via Java code BrokerService broker = new BrokerService(); broker.setPopulateJMSXUserID(true); broker.start(); Or via the Xml ...

JMX Apache ActiveMQ has extensive support for JMX to allow you to monitor and control the behavior of the broker via the JMX MBeans http://apache.apache.org/maven/activemqcore/apidocs/org/apache/activemq/broker/jmx/packagesummary.html. Using JMX to monitor ...

page describes the JMX management requirements. Required MBeans Broker MBeans We need MBeans for the core Broker types in the activemq.broker package to allow folks to see a broker's configuration, its connectors, currently connected clients & disconnect clients etc ...

ActiveMQ will work with any JNDI provider capable of storing Java objects. However it is common to require a JNDI initial context to be able to run many JMS example programs, like Sun's JMS tutorial http://java.sun.com/products/jms/tutorial/131fcs/doc ...

Error You get something like this java.io.IOException: Journal is already opened by this application. at org.apache.activeio.journal.active.ControlFile.lock(ControlFile.java:71) at org.apache.activeio.journal.active.LogFileManager.initialize(LogFileManager.java:120) at org.apache.activeio.journal.active.LogFileManager.<init>(LogFileManager.java:101) at org.apache.activeio.journal.active.JournalImpl.<init>(JournalImpl.java:99) at org.apache.activemq.store.DefaultPersistenceAdapterFactory.createJournal(DefaultPersistenceAdapterFactory.java:198) at org.apache.activemq.store.DefaultPersistenceAdapterFactory.getJournal(DefaultPersistenceAdapterFactory.java:134 ...

latest test reports are visible via the Hudson ActiveMQ continuous integration builds https://hudson.apache.org/hudson/job/ActiveMQ

Kaha Persistence Kaha Peristence is a storage solution written especially for message persistence and is part of the ActiveMQ project. It's tuned to provide optimal performance for typical message usage patterns, which involves writing/reading and discarding messages that are persisted very quickly ...

KahaDB is a file based persistence database that is local to the message broker that is using it. It has been optimised for fast persistence and is the the default storage mechanism from ActiveMQ 5.4 onwards. KahaDB uses less file descriptors and provides faster recovery than ...

under review and not currently supported. Overview The new KahaDB store supports a very fast and flexible replication system. It features: Journal level replication (The translates into lower overhead to the master to replicate records). Support for multiple slaves. Support to dynamically add ...

Operating System Java Virtual Machine Problem description Red Hat Linux Advanced Server release 2.1AS (Pensacola) kernel 2.4.9e.62smp j2sdk1.4.001 Broker could not start up due to error with journal

Latency We typically use this term when talking about the elapsed time it takes to process a single message. When using RequestResponse message topologies its often means the round trip time for a message to flow to a service and for the reply to be recieved

Configuring network topologies can be quite tedious when the number of brokers in the system is large. To help ease the configuration overhead for these types of situations, a broker can be configured to look up its broker connections using a LDAP v3 directory server ...

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Life cycle of Channels Blaze Channels are in one of five states: Constructed the Channel isn't initialized or has been shutDown initialized you can explicitly initialize a Channel by invoking its init() method. At this point its Configuration is set BlazeChannelFactory ...

Load Testing with Camel It is preferable at the time of writing to check out the source of ActiveMQ and Camel and perform local builds first. Then run a broker either via the bin/activemq script or you could be untar/unzip the assembly/target/apacheactivemq.tar.gz file ...

Error log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.activemq.transport.tcp.TcpTransportChannel). log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. Solution You have not initialised log4j properly. Try reading the online log4j manual http://logging.apache.org/log4j/docs/manual.html ...

Logging a warning if you forget to start a Connection A very common gotcha when working with JMS is forgetting to start the JMS connection, creating a consumer and not having it receive any messages. I myself have tripped up over this one many ...

Logging Interceptor The Logging Interceptor is a pretty trivial Interceptor Interceptors which just logs to Jakarta Commons Logging http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/logging/ or log4j http://logging.apache.org/log4j/docs/ as messages are sent or acknowledged on a broker. The default logging level used ...

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Durable topic subscribers how do durable queues and topics work that are offline for a long period of time are usually not desired in the system. The reason for that is that broker needs to keep all the messages sent to those topics for the said subscribers. And this message piling can ...

Introduction to Master / Slave If you don't have an existing highavailability (HA) infrastructure like a storage area network (SAN), the Pure Master Slave configuration is the recommended way for providing high availability and fault tolerance for Apache ActiveMQ. The Pure ...

ActiveMQ provides a Maven2 plugin to easily startup a JMS broker. It is useful to quickly boot up a message broker in your Maven2 project for debugging or for doing integration tests. &nbsp;How to Use Replace the 5.1 version string with the version of your ...

version 5.5.0, ActiveMQ uses slf4j http://www.slf4j.org/ as the logging framework. This allows us to support MDC logging http://www.slf4j.org/api/org/slf4j/MDC.html. See more details about MDC logging in the logback manual http://logback.qos.ch/manual ...

Message Cursors A common problem in previous versions of ActiveMQ was running out of RAM buffer My producer blocks when using nonpersistent messaging. Beginning with ActiveMQ 5.0.0, there is a new memory model that allows messages to be paged in from storage when ...

Message Groups Message Groups rock! :) They are an enhancement to the Exclusive Consumer feature to provide guarranteed ordering of the processing of related messages across a single queue load balancing of the processing of messages across multiple consumers high availability / autofailover to other ...

Overview Messages are redelivered to a client when any of the following occurs: # A transacted session is used and rollback() is called. # A transacted session is closed before commit is called. # A session is using CLIENTACKNOWLEDGE and Session.recover() is called. Behavior in the 3.x brokers Acks/Nacks would ...

Message Transformation It is sometimes useful to transform a message inside the JMS provider. For example you may have an application that has been live for some time that uses ObjectMessage messages, but that you wish to convert to use XML payloads (to protect ...

Mirrored Queues Queues provide an excellent reliable and high performance load balancing mechanism How does a Queue compare to a Topic. Each message placed on a queue can only be successfully processed by a single consumer. This is a good thing! :). However ...

Message Orientated Middleware. The art of building distributed systems using mostly asynchronous message passing with loosely coupled services consuming and emitting messages. So this includes JMS providers and message brokers. Typically MOMs can handle any specific ...

various ways to monitor ActiveMQ How can I monitor ActiveMQ. If you are on version 4.2 or later of ActiveMQ you can then monitor ActiveMQ using the Web Console by pointing your browser at http://localhost:8161/admin Or you can use ...

You may wonder why you are not receiving any message at all during multicast, maybe you have just tried everything, and even on some other OS or distributions and JDK and realize that it works in some place and not on other... you may ...

We could support a reliable multicast protocol and use that to distribute messages across. This page braindumps how that could fit in with ActiveMQ 4.x's architecture. each VM would have its own embedded broker; JMS connections would talk ...

Multicast Transport The Multicast transport allows clients to connect to a remote ActiveMQ broker using multicast Note that by default Multicast is not reliable; datagrams can be lost so you should add a reliability layer to ensure the JMS contract can be implemented ...

you want to consume concurrently from a queue, then you must use a different session for each consumer. This is because you must have a session per thread. The JMS contract is that only 1 session is used by one thread at once which ...

What can I do if my producer blocks sending a message? This relates to Producer Flow Control. Active 4.x In ActiveMQ 4.x, all in transit messages are held in memory. If you have a slow consumer, to avoid exausting the JVM memory ...

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provide massive scalability of a large messaging fabric you typically want to allow many brokers to be connected together into a network so that you can have as many clients as you wish all logically connected together and running as many message ...

New Features This page documents the various new features we add in each major release New Features in 6.0 New Features in 5.5 New Features in 5.4 New Features in 5.2 New Features in 5.1 New Features in 5.0 ...

New Features in Apache ActiveMQ 4.1 Shared File System Master Slave JDBC Master Slave Virtual Destinations Configure Startup Destinations Structured Message Properties and MapMessages

New Features in 4.2 The 4.2 version was renamed to 5.0 due to some changes in OpenWire requiring a major version number increase, plus 5.0 being dependent by default on Java 5 to take advantage of the faster and more bugfree java.util.concurrent code ...

New Features in 5.0 In the 5.0 release of Apache ActiveMQ there are the following new features: AMQ Message Store (Faster Persistence!) Message Cursors (To handle very large number of stored messages) Blob Messages Command Agent Enterprise Integration Patterns ...

New Features in 5.1 In the 5.1.x release of Apache ActiveMQ there are the following new features: You can use the new DestinationSource http://activemq.apache.org/maven/activemqcore/apidocs/org/apache/activemq/advisory/DestinationSource.html on an ActiveMQConnection to access the available queues ...

Apache ActiveMQ 5.2 is primarily a maintenance release which resolves https://issues.apache.org/activemq/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10520&styleName=Html&version=11841 . New Features in 5.2 The new features and enhancements in this release include: Additional advisory messages Advisory ...

Apache ActiveMQ 5.3 is primarily a maintenance release which resolves https://issues.apache.org/activemq/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=11914&styleName=Html&projectId=10520 334 issues. New Features in 5.3 The new features and enhancements in this release include: New KahaDB ...

New Features in 5.4.1 Encrypted passwords Added selector support in Ajax New Features in 5.4 Delay and Schedule Message Delivery Message Priority WebSockets Better OSGi support OSGi Integration Broker side options for updating failover clients ...

New Features in 5.5.0 Dependency on Java 1.6 (java 1.5 is no longer supported) MDC logging (SLF4J http://slf4j.org/) Upgrade to camel 2.7.0 DLQ processing per durable subscription New network connector MBeans IOExceptionHandler http://activemq.apache.org ...

Version 6 will be out towards the end of 2010 but functionality for it is already under development

Symptoms I get an exception saying No suitable driver when initialising the JDBC driver. Reason ActiveMQ tries to autodetect the JDBC driver so that it can deduce the ultimate database's SQL dialect. Some JDBC drivers are not yet autorecognised ...

you get an exception like this java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError org/springframework/core/io/Resource Cause You were probably trying to use the XML Configuration mechanism, which uses Spring, but without having the Spring jar on your classpath. Solution ...

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article applies to versions of ActiveMQ prior to 5.4.0. If you use version 5.4.0 or newer proceed to the following article OSGi Integration. Introduction All ActiveMQ modules are packaged as OSGi bundles and can be used in any OSGi container. This article will provide ...

see I am not receiving any messages, what is wrong

OpenWire is our cross language Wire Protocol to allow native access to ActiveMQ from a number of different languages and platforms. The Java OpenWire transport is the default transport in ActiveMQ 4.x or later. For other languages see the following... NMS http://activemq.apache.org ...

C library which is based on the OpenWire protocol. You can browse the code here http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/activemq/sandbox/openwirec/ e.g. here's an example of it in use... http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/activemq/sandbox/openwirec ...

OpenWire C\ Client Goals We want to be able to provide a C\ API to ActiveMQ that retains rough featureparity with the Java API while at the same time allowing for more flexibility in application design by opening up lower levels of the event system ...

article references OpenWire V2 which is no longer the latest version, the default setting shown in this article may not reflect the current defaults, see this page ACTIVEMQ:Configuring Wire Formats for the latest default OpenWire settings. Overview OpenWire is used to marshal ...

Overview ActiveMQ supports acknowledging a range of messages in a single batch operations. This option is disabled by default but can be used to improve throughput in some circumstances as it decreases load on the broker. Consider enabling it for your performance test scenario to see if it is applicable. Enabling ...

article applies to ActiveMQ version 5.4.0 or newer. If you use an older version proceed to the following article Old OSGi Integration. Introduction All ActiveMQ modules are packaged as OSGi bundles and can be used in any OSGi container. This article ...

Configuring a Session Bean to send messages to ActiveMQ In the attached example application JBoss Integrationactivemqjbosstest.zip, the three MDBs use the {{SenderEJB}} to send JMS messages to an ActiveMQ queue. In this example, I will be explaining how to: # Configure and deploy an ActiveMQ {{Queue ...

Peer Transport The Peer transport provides a peertopeer network with ActiveMQ. What actually happens is the peer transport uses the VM transport to create and connect to a local embedded broker but which configures the embedded broker to establish network connections to other peer ...

We support a number of different policies which can be attached to individual destinations (queues, topics) or to wildcards of queue/topic hierarchies. This makes it easy to configure how different regions of the JMS destination space are handled. The properties you can set ...

Performance Performance differs greatly depending on many different factors the network topology Topologies transport protocols URI Protocols used quality of service QoS hardware, network, JVM and operating system number of producers, number of consumers distribution of messages ...

Performance guides There is a FuseSource tuning guide http://fusesource.com/docs/broker/5.4/tuning/index.html If you're not convinced by performance reports then please do try running performance tests yourselfs. You might wanna check out our overview of Performance ...

more complete overview see Performance. There are tradeoffs between performance and reliabilty. By default, activemq strikes a balance between the two, so there are some things you can change to increase throughput. Async publishing First some background: When an ...

Perl Support For Perl support we recommend the use of the Stomp protocol http://activemq.apache.org/stomp.html. There are various Perl Stomp clients available, such as Net::STOMP::Client Perl http://search.cpan.org/dist/NetSTOMPClient/ Net::Stomp Perl http://search.cpan.org ...

ActiveMQ V5 From 5.3 onwards we recommend you use KahaDB which offers improved scalability and recoverability over the AMQ Message Store. The AMQ Message Store which although faster than KahaDB does not scales as well ...

Questions relating to long term persistence of messages

PHP Support For PHP support we recommend the PHP Stomp Client. A list of available clients for PHP is available here http://stomp.codehaus.org/implementations.html. Among others you can grab a stompphp client from here http://stomp.fusesource.org/release ...

Pike Support For Pike support we recommend the Pike Stomp Client http://stomp.codehaus.org/Pike

Note: I am in to JMS and active MQ. I am writing an application and would like to use Active MQ as Queue for queuing up processing request and have them consumed by the next available node in a distributed system. (One ...

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Information about your use of this website is collected using server access logs and a tracking cookie. The collected information consists of the following: # The IP address from which you access the website; # The type of browser and operating system you use to access ...

Producer Flow Control In ActiveMQ 4.x flow control was implemented using TCP flow control. The underlying network connection of throttled consumers was suspended to enforce flow control limits. This strategy is very efficient but can lead to deadlocks if there are multiple producers ...

Apache Camel http://activemq.apache.org/camel/ is a POJO based routing and mediation framework Apache CXF http://incubator.apache.org/cxf/ is a JAXWS client and web services framework Apache Geronimo http://geronimo.apache.org/ is the J2EE server project of the Apache Software Foundation ...

4/16/06 Attaching wireformats.pdf a first cut at defining all of the commands for both openwire an stomp.&nbsp; Working toward an architecture that will support both.&nbsp; ///////////////////////////////////////////////&nbsp; Given that there are several separate efforts going on now toward the common goal ...

Apache ActiveMQ is a message broker which supports multiple wire level protocols for maximum interoperability

Pure Master Slave A Pure Master Slave configuration provides a basic shared nothing, fully replicated topology which does not depend on a shared file system or shared database. How Pure Master Slave works A slave of a master broker ...

Python Support For Python support we recommend the Python Stomp Client http://stomp.github.com/implementations.html Alternatively, you can try pyactivemq http://code.google.com/p/pyactivemq/, which is a Python wrapper for the ActiveMQ C Library. Because the ActiveMQ C ...

QoS is a MOM abbreviation of the term Quality of Service. There are many different kinds of messaging with different qualities of service such as topics versus queues durable messaging versus reliable (some buffering takes place but if a consumer is down long enough the messages are discarded ...

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Redelivery Policy Detail on when messages are redelivered to a client can be found in the Message Redelivery and DLQ Handling section. You can configure the RedeliveryPolicy http://activemq.apache.org/maven/activemqcore/apidocs/org/apache/activemq/RedeliveryPolicy.html on your ActiveMQConnectionFactory http ...

How to create and announce an ActiveMQ release. This release is based on General guide for releasing Mavenbased project at Apache http://maven.apache.org/developers/release/apacherelease.html, so be sure to check it out before continuing and meet all prerequisites. Maven 2 ...

General Release Information Current RoadMap http://jira.activemq.org/jira/browse/AMQ?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:roadmappanel Release Guide Signing Releases http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/SigningReleases Apache Mirror Guidelines http://apache.org/dev/mirrors.html

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messages are stored on the hard drive of a broker or inside a single database; then you have a single point of failure with respect to the message persistence. If you lose the entire machine, disk or database, you have lost messages. For some high end users ...

Introduction ActiveMQ includes a Java Connector Architecture (JCA) 1.5 Resource Adapter. JCA 1.5 defines the contract between an J2EE application server and external resources such as databases and messaging middleware. It allows the application server to efficiently pool connections ...

may seem like the resource adapter when used in an app server like geronimo or jboss is not pooling connections. Looking the the ActiveMQ broker logs, it will show multiple message for each use of a pooled conntion simlilar to: 16:43:07 ...

ActiveMQ Resource Adapter allows you to configure several properties that: sets the options used for connection used for inbound message delivery sets the default options used for the outbound connection factory objects. The properties that can be configured are: Property Name Required ...

ActiveMQ implements a REST http://rest.blueoxen.net/ful API to messaging which allows any web capable device to publish or consume messages using a regular HTTP POST or GET. If you are working with DHTML or web browsers you might wanna ...

many ways to map JMS to REST... Crappy nonREST Send via POST /queue/Destination Consume GET /queue/Destination This is bad as the GET is not idempotent. We can add a user ID or use a cookie GET /queue/Destination?jsessionId ...

RESTful Queue This document is intended to document the ideal RESTful interface to message queues in light of the discussion on restdiscuss http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/restdiscuss/message/8955 Atom Publishing Protocol http://bitworking.org/projects/atom/draftietfatompubprotocol17.html (APP) httplr http://www.dehora.net/doc ...

Background A retroactive consumer is just a regular JMS consumer who indicates that at the start of a subscription every attempt should be used to go back in time and send any old messages (or the last message sent on that topic) that the consumer may have missed ...

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We have added support for the RESTful browsing of message queues in the activemqweb module. To try out this feature try the Web Samples. Browsing of queues is implemented by a servlet, QueueBrowseServlet which allows queues to be browsed using pluggable views. The current views ...

Ruby Support For Ruby support we recommend the Ruby Stomp Client http://stomp.codehaus.org/Ruby Ruby Stomp Here's the Ruby client for Stomp, written by Brian McCallister. Package: http://rubyforge.org/projects/stomp/ Source: http://svn.codehaus.org/stomp ...

Running an ActiveMQ Broker Note if you want to use an embedded broker then see How do I embed a Broker inside a Connection This page describes how to run a broker using 4.x or later of ActiveMQ. For earlier versions ...

3.x binary distribution Download of ActiveMQ comes with a script called 'activemq' which allows you to run a broker. Typing the following will run an ActiveMQ Broker using the out of the box configuration activemq You can use the Xml Configuration ...

Example of a configuration that show how to use Camel routes with Juel and Xpath. <beans> <! Allows us to use system properties as variables in this configuration file > <bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"/> <broker useJmx="true" persistent="false" xmlns="http://activemq.org/config/1.0 ...

Performance Test Report Template <testResult> <property name='systemSettings'> <props> <prop key='java.runtime.name'>Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition</prop> <prop key='java.vm.version'>1.4.210b03</prop> . . . <prop key='os.arch'>x86</prop ...

Scaling to tens of thousands of Queues in a single broker is relatively straightforward but requires some configuration changes from the default. Reducing Threads With the default configuration, ActiveMQ is configured to use a dispatch thread per Queue you can use set the optimizeDispatch ...

Nearly all messaging systems (certainly open source ones) hold either a copy of a persistent message or a reference to a persisted message in memory. This is primarily to try and improve performance, but it also can significantly decrease the complexity of implementation. In fact ActiveMQ version ...

ActiveMQ 4.x and greater provides pluggable security through various different providers. The most common providers are JAAS http://java.sun.com/products/jaas/ for authentication a default authorization mechanism using a simple XML configuration file. Authentication The default JAAS ...

Staged Event Driven Architecture which is a design pattern for building high performance and scalable distributed systems. See this paper http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/mdw/proj/seda/ for more details

JMS Selectors Selectors are a way of attaching a filter to a subscription to perform content based routing. Selectors are defined using SQL 92 syntax and typically apply to message headers; whether the standard properties available on a JMS message or custom headers you ...

Create the file <webapproot>/METAINF/context.xml. Here is an example: <Context antiJARLocking="true"> <Resource name="jms/ConnectionFactory" auth="Container" type="org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnectionFactory" description="JMS Connection Factory" factory="org.apache.activemq.jndi.JNDIReferenceFactory" brokerURL="tcp://localhost:61616" brokerName ...

Shared File System Master Slave If you have a SAN or shared file system it can be used to provide high availability such that if a broker is killed, another broker can take over immediately. Note that the requirements of this failover system are a distributed file ...

Should I deploy Enterprise Integration Patterns in the broker or another application Whether you deploy the Enterprise Integration Patterns inside the ActiveMQ Broker or in a separate application depends on your requirements. Advantages of deploying EIP inside the broker Its a single ...

You can deploy the ActiveMQ Broker inside your JVM or Application Server. Whether you do or not has pros and cons depending on how many JVMs you have and what your backup & recovery policy is. Advantages of embedding the broker ...

You often have to choose between how you consume messages. The choices are # autoacknowledgement # explicit acknowledgement via Message.acknowledge() # JMS transactions # XA For a discussion on XA try Should I use XA The main difference between 1 & 2 ...

Should I use XA transactions (two phase commit?) A common use of JMS is to consume messages from a queue or topic, process them using a database or EJB, then acknowledge / commit the message. If you are using more than one resource ...

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Using ActiveMQ, Generic JMS RA and SJSAS (Glassfish) This document is my notes on making ActiveMQ and SJSAS work together using GenericJMSRA. The objectives is to make ActiveMQ as the JMS provider and MDB can be deployed in SJSAS, listening messages from ActiveMQ ...

Slow Consumers can cause problems on nondurable topics since they can force the broker to keep old messages in RAM which once it fills up, forces the broker to slow down producers, causing the fast consumers to be slowed down. One ...

Blocked Transport when using TCP there can be occasions when a network outage can result in a blocked write. This can cause the entire broker to freeze and the socket may never be unblocked. Currently we have a Thread that checks for blocked sockets ...

You may experience problems sending large messages using networks across slow links. The symptoms are usually that the network connection will be dropped and continuously reestablished. This problem arises because the ActiveMQ message broker continuously checks for activity on a socket, and whilst ...

Web Browsing of SVN To browse via the web use the ViewVC interface: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/activemq/trunk/ Or to browse the source tree directly: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/activemq/trunk/ Web Browing Using FishEye !Fisheyelogo.png! A hearty ...

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We fully support Spring for configuration of the JMS client side as well as for configuring the JMS Message Broker. There is a great article http://codedependents.com/2009/10/16/efficientlightweightjmswithspringandactivemq/ on using Spring with ActiveMQ I'd recommend reading it first. Configuring the JMS client To configure an ...

SQL Server SQL Server 2000 Drivers&nbsp; Here is an example of a configuration for SQLServer kindly supplied by Ning Li <persistenceAdapter> <journaledJDBC journalLogFiles="5" dataDirectory="../activemqdata" dataSource="#mssqlds"> <adapter><imageBasedJDBCAdaptor/></adapter> </journaledJDBC> </persistenceAdapter> <bean id ...

SSL Transport The SSL transport allows clients to connect to a remote ActiveMQ broker using SSL over a TCP socket. Configuration Syntax ssl://hostname:port?transportOptions Transport Options The configuration options from TCP TCP Transport Reference ...

Static Transport The static transport provides a hard coded mechanism to discover other connections using a list of URIs. A connection using this discovery mechanism will attempt to connect to all URIs in the list until it is succesful. Configuration Syntax static:(uri1,uri2,uri3,...)?options ...

Beginning in ActiveMQ 5.3, a statistics plugin is included that can be used to retrieve statistics from the broker or its destinations. Note that the message must contain a {{replyTo}} header (the {{jmsReplyTo}} header if you're using JMS) else the message will be ignored. The {{replyTo}} header ...

ActiveMQ supports the Stomp http://stomp.github.com/ protocol and the Stomp JMS mapping. This makes it easy to write a client in pure Ruby ruby, Perl perl, Python python or PHP php for working with ActiveMQ. Please see the Stomp site http://stomp.codehaus.org ...

Structured Message Properties and MapMessages This JMS extension feature allows you to attach Map and List properties to any JMS Message or to use nested Maps and Lists inside a MapMessage. This allows you to efficiently send typesafe structured information in your ...

subscription recovery policy allows you to go back in time when you subscribe to a topic. For example imagine you are processing a price feed; you're using a federated network and either a network glitch occurs or someone kills the broker you're ...

here's an example jndi.properties file: java.naming.factory.initial = com.sun.jndi.fscontext.RefFSContextFactory Here's an example .bindind file: For ActiveMQ 4.x its Archive/ClassName=org.apache.activemq.command.ActiveMQQueue Archive/FactoryName=org.apache.activemq.jndi.JNDIReferenceFactory Archive/RefAddr/0/Type=physicalName Archive/RefAddr/0/Content=Archive Archive/RefAddr/0/Encoding=String ...

Getting Help If you are experiencing problems using ActiveMQ then please report your problem to our Issue Tracker http://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/AMQ. You may also find it useful to discuss your issues with the community on the Discussion Forums ...

It'd be great to offer kick ass support for streaming files over ActiveMQ of any arbitrary size. The basic idea is to fragment the stream into multiple messages and send/receive those over JMS. There are a few issues to consider... Use casess # many ...

TCP Transport The TCP transport allows clients to connect to a remote ActiveMQ broker using a TCP socket. Configuration Syntax tcp://hostname:port?key=value Transport Options Option Name Default Value Description minmumWireFormatVersion 0 The minimum ...

ActiveMQ Community This page lists who we are. By all means add yourself to the list lets sort it in alphabetical order Committers "A committer is a developer that was given write access to the code repository and has a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA http ...

Questions on Message Orientated Middleware and ActiveMQ terminology Store and Forward brokers receive messages, store them locally and forwards the message to a recipient (in this case another broker) when it is able to do so. The message is only deleted once its been ...

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foundation of message and event parsing in ActiveBlaze is the BlazeMessage. A BlazeMessage is a a Map of key value pairs, where the keys are strings and the values are primitive objects. The values supported are: byte bytes char short int long float double Map (supports recursion ...

been reported that during broker start some users get a message similar to: 15:26:29 INFO Opening journal. Caught: javax.jms.JMSException: Failed to open transaction journal: java.io.IOException: Invalid argument It could be this problem Journal is already opened ...

Proxy Connector Many of the more advanced ActiveMQ features are implemented in the transports. Sometimes it's desirable to accept one kind of ActiveMQ connection and establish a different kind of connection to another broker. The Proxy Connector allows you to do that by accepting connection on one ...

Scenario You are using the vm: transport and a broker is autostarted for you so that your configured embedded broker doesn't start. Solution Its most likely a dependency issue; your JMS connection is starting before your embedded broker. So ...

How many messages can we process per second. Normally MOM style applications focus on asynchronous messaging and SEDA style architectures which aim for massive throughput numbers at the cost of some Latency

TimeStampPlugin is a Broker interceptor which updates a JMS Client's timestamp on the message with a broker timestamp. This can be useful when the clocks on client machines are known to not be correct and you can only trust the time set on the broker machines. Enabling this plugin will break ...

We are a community based open source project and we really welcome and value your Contributions Contributing. We have various ways of getting help via the Discussion Forums or Mailing Lists. Here are a few tips to help us to help ...

You should go to Tomcat documentation and read JNDI Resources HOWTO, especially part: Configure Tomcat's Resource Factory. ActiveMQ has ready JNDI resource factory for all its administered objects: ConnectionFactory and destinations. You must provide ...

ActiveMQ supports a wide range of different deployment topologies as well as protocols URI Protocols & wire formats. The following diagram shows a federated network of brokers with a few different kinds of topology. !BrokerTopology1.png! http://activemq.org/BrokerTopology.pdf Which topology you ...

Sometimes it can be useful to ensure that every topic consumer sees messages arriving on the topic in exactly the same order. Normally we guarrentee the order of all messages sent by the same producer; however due to multithreading and asynchronous processing, the messages from ...

UDP Transport The UDP transport allows clients to connect to a remote ActiveMQ broker using raw UDP Note that by default UDP is not reliable; datagrams can be lost so you should add a reliability layer to ensure the JMS contract can ...

page contains resources that will make you adapt ActiveMQ to your Unixbased operating system

Creating a Unix Service for ActiveMQ Below are steps to make ActiveMQ a Linux Daemon on Red Hat 4 ES. It's based on this article http://www128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/lsecjav.html. Alternatively, you could also use the Java Service Wrapper ...

From version 5.4.0 onwards, ActiveMQ comes with a enhanced shell script for starting, stopping and managing the broker in Unix environment. For basic activemq ActiveMQ Command Line Tools Reference#activemq and activemqadmin ActiveMQ Command Line Tools Reference#activemqadmin ...

ActiveMQ is designed to support mutliple different topologies Topologies and protocols. Which one you use depends on your messaging requirements, quality of service and network topology. The following table describes the different network protocols available along with showing the connection ...

Messaging is a diverse and wide ranging subject there are many different use cases, requirements and deployment options. This is one of the reasons why its so interesting to work on :) This document tries to highlight some of the main use cases we are trying to tackle with ActiveQM ...

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Please add any configurations of ActiveMQ you wish to share with other users here... Complex Single Broker Configuration (STOMP only) \ Example of an ActiveMQ configuration with predefined queues, simple destination security. JMS and JDBC operations in one ...

page contains a list of some of our users and gives a brief overview of how they are using ActiveMQ. The purpose of this page is to help the ActiveMQ community get to know each other & find out what we're all doing with ActiveMQ and for the developers of ActiveMQ ...

Using Apache ActiveMQ 4 To help you get started using Apache ActiveMQ you may wish to start off with the Getting Started guide or the Configuring Transports. Otherwise here is a complete list of the guides

Using Apache ActiveMQ To help you get started using Apache ActiveMQ version 5 you may wish to start off with the Version 5 Getting Started guide or the Configuring version 5 Transports. Otherwise here is a complete list ...

I've seen numerous postings regarding ActiveMQ with EJB3, and variations of a datasource XML file for use with JBoss integration. However, they don't quite work. Here is what worked for me, it is actually quite simple: 1. Don't use any datasource ...

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Verify the Integrity of Downloads It is essential that you verify the integrity of the downloaded files using the PGP or MD5 signatures. The PGP signatures can be verified using PGP or GPG. Begin by following these steps: # Download the KEYS http://www.apache.org/dist/activemq/apacheactivemq ...

Introduction This document describes how to install and configure ActiveMQ for both Unix and Windows' platforms. Document Organization The Getting Started Guide for ActiveMQ contains the following sections: #Introduction #Document Organization #PreInstallation Requirements #Installation Procedure for Windows #Windows Binary ...

Initial Configuration Document Organization #Required JARs #Optional JARS #Persistence Support #Next steps #Additional Resources #Related Reading #Specifications #Related open source projects Firstly you need to add the jars to your classpath. Required JARs ...

more complete overview see Performance. There are tradeoffs between performance and reliabilty. By default, activemq strikes a balance between the two, so there are some things you can change to increase throughput. Async publishing First some background: When an ...

Running an ActiveMQ Broker Note if you want to use an embedded broker then see How do I embed a Broker inside a Connection The binary distribution Download of ActiveMQ comes with a script called 'activemq' which allows you ...

few example programs demonstrating the REST messaging or Ajax in the activemq/activemqwebdemo https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/activemq/trunk/activemqwebdemo/ module. Running the Web Samples We have integrated the Web Samples into the binary distribution. The steps to running the Web ...

transport connectors which consist of transport channels and wire formats TODO: add a link to a page explaining what transport connectors are how to configure and use them. network connectors using network channels or discovery TODO: add a link to a page ...

Virtual Destinations allow us to create logical destinations that clients can use to produce and consume from but which map onto one or more physical destinations. It allows us to provide more flexible loosely coupled messaging configurations. Virtual ...

Inspired greatly by Gregor and Erik's great talk at TSSJS 2006 http://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/talks.html we've started to add some visualisation plugins into Apache ActiveMQ. Connection visualisation There is a <connectionDotFilePlugin/> broker plugin which generates a DOT file http://www.graphviz.org ...

zillion different things we could do to visualise the system. Lets use this page to braindump ideas for what kinds of visualisations we could do show visually the popularity of certain destinations; using size/color/position/stats to indicate ...

Protocol syntax : vm://logicalname Javadocs : org.codehaus.activemq.transport.vm http://activemq.codehaus.org/maven/apidocs/org/codehaus/activemq/transport/vm/packageframe.html The VM protocol allows clients to connect to each other inside the VM without the overhead of the network communication. The connection ...

VM Transport The VM transport allows clients to connect to each other inside the VM without the overhead of the network communication. The connection used is not a socket connection but use direct method invocations which enables a high performance embedded messaging system ...

ActiveMQ Web Console is a web based administration tool for working with ActiveMQ. When used with the JMX support it can be an invaluable tool for working with ActiveMQ If your web console doesn't start correctly in 5.3.1 release, you're probably ran ...

few example programs demonstrating the REST messaging or Ajax in the activemq/activemqwebdemo https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/activemq/trunk/activemqwebdemo/ module. Running the Web Samples from version 5.0 onwards In 5.0 we have integrated the Web Samples ...

ActiveMQ WebLogic Integration ActiveMQ clients and brokers can be run in WebLogic Server or WebLogic Express. This is usually done for licensing reasons: WebLogic Server includes JMS client and server features, but it may cost extra to use these JMS features to connect ...

Introduction Besides Ajax API, starting with version 5.4.0 onwards, you can use HTML5 WebSockets http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/ to exchange messages with the broker from your browser. HTML 5 introduced web sockets, as a standardized way to communicate asynchronously ...

What are administered objects? Administered objects refers to objects that are configured in JNDI JNDI Support and then accessed by a JMS client. So they are simply clientside objects typically either a ConnectionFactory or a Destination (such as a Queue or Topic). Note that administered objects are only used for JNDI ...

When you look at a broker using JMX you will see a number of topics starting with ActiveMQ.Advisory.. These are the destinations used by the Advisory Message feature of ActiveMQ which allows you to listen to the behaviour of the system

preferred" size is exceeded then the last log files keeps growing until the first log files can be overwritten. When a log file is overwritten, it's size is reset to the "preferred" size

depends a little on the QoS but in general we implement flow control which means that when we have a very fast producer and a slow consumer, when we get to a high water mark of outstanding messages we will start to tell the producer ...

ActiveMQ is an open sourced implementation of JMS 1.1 as part of the J2EE 1.4 specification

What is the difference between a Virtual Topic and a Composite Destination Both kinds of Virtual Destinations offer similar capabilities, namely that the producer sees a single Destination to send to and the consumer sees a different Destination to consume from and there can be a many to many map ...

Discovery refers to either a client (producer or consumer) establishing a 'transport connector' to the broker or a broker establishing 'network connector' to another broker without explicit static configuration of broker (IP or hostname). The scheme 'multicast' refers to either listening for or advertising discovery ...

What is the difference between persistent and nonpersistent delivery? ActiveMQ supports both persistent and nonpersistent delivery. As per the JMS specification, the default delivery mode is persistent. The persistence flag is set on the MessageProducer for all messages using the setDeliveryMode. It can also be specified ...

What is the license? This software is open source using the Apache 2.0 licence http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE2.0.html (a liberal BSD style license which is very commercial friendly

One of the aims of ActiveMQ is to be a high performance message bus. This means using a SEDA architecture to perform as much work as possible asynchronously. To be able to achieve high performance it is important to stream messages to consumers as fast as possible so that the consumer always has ...

What jars do I need The basic jars you need to use are described on the Initial Configuration page

Apache Camel http://activemq.apache.org/camel project has been designed to work easily with ActiveMQ and comes embedded http://activemq.apache.org/camel/howdoescamelworkwithactivemq.html in both the clients and the broker from ActiveMQ 5.0 onwards. Apache Camel http://activemq.apache.org/camel ...

What platforms does ActiveMQ Support? ActiveMQ 5.x supports any Java platform of JDK 5.0 or later. To run on 1.4 see these instructions Can I use ActiveMQ 5.0 or later on Java 1.4. You can use ActiveMQ ...

you are using the JMS Streams feature with 4.x of ActiveMQ http://activemq.org/JMSStreams you'd be able to watch the progress in a JMX console or HermesJMS by looking at the queue depths; each large 1Gb file is split into individual JMS messages so you ...

ActiveMQ 3.x/4.x As Matt reported http://forums.logicblaze.com/posts/list/0/14.page#37 its possible that there is a race condition in your application; are you sure you had created your consumer and called start() on the JMS Connection before the producer started ...

You follow these steps # Create a durable topic subscription # Kill the consumer # Publish some messages to the topic # Restart the subscriber But you don't receive the messages? Fix To be able to deliver messages to offline durable topic subscribers you must mark ...

Cleanup of unreferenced KahaDB journal log files data<id>.log will occur every 30seconds by deafault. If a data file is inuse it will not be cleaned up. The definition of inuse is many fold. In the simplest case, a data file is inuse if it contains a pending message ...

We support destination wildcards to provide easy support for federated name hierarchies. This concept has been popular in financial market data for some time as a way of organizing events (such as price changes) into hierarchies and to use wildcards for easy subscription of the range ...

page describes the logical OpenWire protocol for users developing clients in other languages than Java such as C# or C native clients. Note that OpenWire is designed for maximum performance and features; its the protocol used inside ActiveMQ. If you want a simpler ...

WSNotification This page has now moved to the ServiceMix site http://servicemix.apache.org/. You can read about WSNotification support here http://incubator.apache.org/servicemix/wsnotification.html

Apache Web Service Invocation Framework (WSIF) http://ws.apache.org/wsif/ allows you to perform web service invocations using a number of different implementation protocols like Axis, local Java, EJB, JMS, JCA CCI etc. For more ...

Elements By Type The org.apache.activemq.network.jms.InboundQueueBridge #org.apache.activemq.network.jms.InboundQueueBridgetypes Type Implementations <inboundQueueBridge> #inboundQueueBridgeelement Create an Inbound Queue Bridge The org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerService #org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerServicetypes Type Implementations <broker> #brokerelement An ActiveMQ Message Broker which consists of a number of transport connectors, network connectors ...

Elements By Type The org.apache.activemq.broker.TransportConnector #org.apache.activemq.broker.TransportConnectortypes Type Implementations <transportConnector> #transportConnectorelement The org.apache.activemq.network.jms.InboundQueueBridge #org.apache.activemq.network.jms.InboundQueueBridgetypes Type Implementations <inboundQueueBridge> #inboundQueueBridgeelement Create an Inbound Queue Bridge The org.apache.activemq.network.NetworkConnector #org.apache.activemq.network.NetworkConnectortypes Type Implementations <ldapNetworkConnector> #ldapNetworkConnectorelement class to create dynamic network connectors ...

We support an XML deployment descriptor for configuring the ActiveMQ Message Broker. There are many things which can be configured such as transport connectors which consist of transport channels and wire formats TODO: add a link to a page explaining what transport ...

ActiveMQ Xml Reference This page contains a link to the XML reference guides and XML schema documents for Xml Configuration with ActiveMQ releases Released Schemas Reference Document Reference XML Schema XML Schema namespace XBean XML Reference 4.1 ...

XMPP Protocol Support (Jabber\!) We have support for XMPP http://www.xmpp.org/ (Jabber) as a transport in ActiveMQ. To use just add a connector as follows <broker xmlns="http://activemq.org/config/1.0"> <transportConnectors> <transportConnector name="openwire" uri="tcp://localhost ...

ZeroConf ZeroConf http://www.zeroconf.org/ is a standard service discovery mechanism. ZeroConf is used on Apple's OS X; which used to call it Rendezvous but now calls it Bonjour. We use the jmDNS http://jmdns.sf.net/ project to implement the Zeroconf specification to detect ...

ZeroConf Transport The ZeroConf transport works just like Discovery Transport Discovery Transport Reference, except that it uses a ZeroConf based discovery agent to locate the list of broker uris to connect to. Configuration Syntax zeroconf:serviceName?transportOptions or zeroconf:serviceName ...

Running ActiveMQ on z/OS It is relatively straightforward to run the ActiveMQ broker on z/OS. There are a couple of steps: 1. Copy ActiveMQ to z/OS 2. Modify the configuration 3. Run using JZOS 4. Test Copy ActiveMQ to z ...